"Lets Guide It into Kattegat bay and up Copenhagens Oresund Strait For A Greenies Global Warming Demo."

"Almost 12 Miles long by five miles wide with interior temperature of -15 to -20C (5 to -4 F).."

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian authorities Friday issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg that is gradually approaching the country's southwest coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored using satellites.

"Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles) south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed," it said, giving the iceberg's coordinates.

"The iceberg is 140 square kilometres in area -- 19 Kilometers = 11.8060527 Miles long by eight kilometres (five miles) wide." Experts believe the iceberg --...